This is a representation of the ark; the ancient Jews venerated a similar image, and some of the ancient Greek States followed in processions a model of the ark of Deucalion.
The priests of Baalbek, now in the Lebanon, had the curious custom of pouring sea water from the Mediterranean into a cleft in the rock near the temple to perpetuate the memory of the waters of the Deluge pouring away into it, as also the rescue of Deucalion.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, are the sole human survivors of the flood in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1.
Bk I:348-415 Deucalion and Pyrrha
But when Deucalion saw its emptiness, and the deep silence of the desolate lands, he spoke to Pyrrha, through welling tears.
During the Iron Age, Jupiter, outraged by human depravity (exemplified by King Lycaon's actions), convened the gods and ended that age by sending a great flood to destroy most of humanity, sparing only Deucalion and Pyrrha.
He destroys most of humanity with a flood, sparing only Deucalion and Pyrrha to repopulate the earth.
Ended by Jupiter's intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha to repopulate the earth
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, are the sole human survivors of the flood in Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 1.
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Ended by Jupiter's intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
Zeus’s reign oversees the decline through the Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages, culminating in the flood to end human corruption, followed by repopulation through Deucalion and Pyrrha.
Ended by Jupiter's (Zeus) intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
In Greek mythology, the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, as the sole survivors of a great flood who repopulate the earth by throwing stones that become humans, is primarily detailed in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Book 1, lines 348–415), a Roman work that draws heavily on Greek traditions.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, and Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus, survive a flood sent by Zeus to destroy the corrupt Bronze Age race.
By Prometheus’s advice, Deucalion built an ark, and putting in it provisions, he embarked in it with Pyrrha.
Deucalion, floating in the ark over the sea for nine days and nights, drifted to Parnassus, and there, when the rain ceased, he disembarked and sacrificed to Zeus Phyxius.
At the bidding of Zeus, he took up stones and threw them over his head; and the stones which Deucalion threw became men, and the stones which Pyrrha threw became women.
Deucalion had children by Pyrrha: first Hellen, whose father some say was Zeus; and second Amphictyon, who reigned over Attica after Cranaus; and third a daughter, Protogeneia."
The narrative extends through Deucalion’s son Hellen, who fathers Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus, eponymous ancestors of the Greek tribes (Dorians, Ionians, Aeolians).
Pindar briefly references Deucalion and Pyrrha in the context of the founding of Opus, a city in Locris.
"When the dark cloud of the flood covered the earth, Deucalion and Pyrrha, leaving their ark, built their home on the heights of Parnassus.
Hesiod’s fragmentary Catalogue of Women (Fragment 2–5, preserved in later sources like the Scholia) mentions Deucalion and Pyrrha as ancestors of the Greek tribes through their son Hellen.
"Deucalion, son of Prometheus, married Pyrrha, daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora… From them was born Hellen, the war-loving king, from whom the Hellenes are named."
Ovid’s Description: Dominated by greed, crime, and impiety, ended by Jupiter’s flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha (Metamorphoses 1.128–312).
Atlantis could be a specific civilization within the Iron Age, destroyed by Zeus as part of or parallel to the broader flood that spares Deucalion and Pyrrha.
Plato does not connect Atlantis’s destruction to repopulation, but the survival of Deucalion and Pyrrha could represent a broader renewal post-catastrophe.
In Greek sources like Apollodorus’s Bibliotheca (1.7.2), Deucalion’s descendants (e.g., Hellen) found Greek tribes, potentially including post-Atlantis societies.
In Ovid, Themis guides Deucalion and Pyrrha’s repopulation (Metamorphoses 1.381–384).
While Hesiod does not mention Atlantis, his flood myth in Catalogue of Women (Fragment 2–5) connects Deucalion to Greek origins, paralleling Plato’s destruction of a corrupt society.
Deucalion, son of Prometheus, survives the flood in Ovid and Apollodorus.
Plato’s Atlantis lacks a direct Prometheus link, but his role as humanity’s benefactor (Theogony 507–616) could imply he aids survivors like Deucalion, connecting the myths through human resilience.
Deucalion and Pyrrha, spared for their piety, represent the broader renewal, while Atlantis’s sinking serves as a cautionary tale of hubris, consistent with Zeus’s role as enforcer of divine justice.
Hesiod’s myths provide additional context, with Deucalion’s survival echoing broader Greek flood traditions.
Ended by Jupiter's (Zeus) intervention with a flood, sparing Deucalion and Pyrrha
Deucalion and Pyrrha are the sole human survivors of the flood, repopulate the earth
In Greek mythology, Poseidon is linked to the flooding of regions (e.g., the myth of Deucalion’s flood, where he unleashes waters to punish humanity), similar to Aph’s submersion of Pan to cleanse spiritual corruption.
Aph’s cycle, occurring in regions like Jaffeth and Shem, aligns with areas where flood myths (like Deucalion’s) were prevalent, and Oahspe’s use of names like “Aph” may evoke Poseidon’s mythological resonance.
Greeks (Deucalion’s Flood) – A civilization wiped out by the gods.
A select person is warned (Nūḥ, Ziusudra, Utnapishtim, Manu, Deucalion).
Greek Mythology: The flood of Deucalion wipes out a corrupt humanity, leaving only a few survivors to repopulate the Earth.
Do we find in this curious designation of iron and loadstone as "bones of the descendants of the earth," an explanation of that otherwise inexplicable Greek legend about Deucalion "throwing the bones of the earth behind him, when instantly men rose from the ground, and the world was repeopled?" Does it mean that by means of the magnet he sailed, after the Flood, to the European colonies of Atlantis.
Examples include Noah as Deucalion, Samson as Hercules, and parallels between biblical and mythological events.
Prometheus advised his son Deucalion to build a chest.
Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha (daughter of Epimetheus and Pandora), after floating in the chest for nine days and nights, landed on Parnassus.
Deucalion survived due to his prudence and piety and linked the first and second race of men.
An older version of the story told by Hellanicus has Deucalion's ark landing on Mount Othrys in Thessaly.
The Megarians told that Megarus, son of Zeus, escaped Deucalion's flood by swimming to the top of Mount Gerania, guided by the cries of cranes.
Nannacus, king of Phrygia, lived before the time of Deucalion and foresaw that he and all people would perish in a coming flood.
The floods, especially the third great flood before Deucalion, washed away most of Athens' fertile soil.
With Neptune's help, he caused storm and earthquake to flood everything but the summit of Parnassus, where Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha came by boat and found refuge.
Deucalion and Pyrrha, at the advice of an oracle, repopulated the world by throwing "your mother's bones" (stones) behind them; each stone became a person.
The whole of Greece lay under water, and none but Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were saved." (Murray's "Mythology" p.
And here we find that the Flood that destroyed this land of the gods was the Flood of Deucalion, and the Flood of Deucalion was the Flood of the Bible, and this, as we have shown, was "the last great Deluge of all," according to the Egyptians, which destroyed Atlantis.
Deucalion repeopling the world is repeated in Xololt, who, after the destruction of the world, descended to Mictlan, the realm of the dead, and brought thence a bone of the perished race.
The Oneidas claimed descent from a stone, as the Greeks from the stones of Deucalion.
And the same succession of destructions is referred to in the Greek legends, where a deluge of Ogyges--"the most ancient of the kings of Bœotia or Attica, a quite mythical person, lost in the night of ages"--preceded that of Deucalion.
This is a representation of the ark; the ancient Jews venerated a similar image, and some of the ancient Greek States followed in processions a model of the ark of Deucalion.
Szeu-kha killed the eagle, restored its victims to life, and repeopled the earth with them, as Deucalion repeopled the earth with the stones.
"The generality of people," be says, "tells us that the founder of the temple was Deucalion Sisythes--that Deucalion in whose time the great inundation occurred.
I have also heard the account given by the Greeks themselves of Deucalion; the myth runs thus: The actual race of men is not the first, for there was a previous one, all the members of which perished.
We belong to a second race, descended from Deucalion, and multiplied in the course of time.
Deucalion alone, because of his virtue and piety, was preserved alive to give birth to a new race.
Such is the account given by the Greeks of Deucalion.
Then Deucalion raised an altar, and dedicated a temple to Hera (Atargatis) close to this very chasm.
This is said to be in virtue of a religious law instituted by Deucalion to preserve the memory of the catastrophe, and of the benefits that he received from the gods.
Here the Xisuthros of Berosus becomes Deucalion-Sisythes.
The animals are not collected together by Deucalion, as in the case of Noah and Khasisatra, but they crowded into the vessel of their own accord, driven by the terror with which the storm
"The second tradition is the Thessalian legend of Deucalion.
Zeus having worked to destroy the men of the age of bronze, with whose crimes be was wroth, Deucalion, by the advice of Prometheus, his father, constructed a coffer, in which he took refuge with his wife, Pyrrha.
Deucalion and Pyrrha leave it, offer sacrifice, and,
This Deluge of Deucalion is, in Grecian tradition, what most resembles a universal deluge.
At Athens, in memory of the event, and to appease the manes of its victims, a ceremony called Hydrophoria was observed, having so close a resemblance to that in use at Hierapolis, in Syria, that we can hardly fail to look upon it as a Syro-Phœnician importation, and the result of an assimilation established in remote antiquity between the Deluge of Deucalion and that of Khasisatra, as described by the author of the treatise 'On the Syrian Goddess.' Close to the temple of the Olympian Zeus a fissure in the soil was shown, in length but one cubit, through which it was said the waters of the Deluge had been swallowed tip.
Noah was one year and ten days in the ark, Khasisatra was not half that time, while Deucalion was afloat only nine days.
When the Greeks told the Egyptian priests of the Deluge of Deucalion, their reply was that they had been preserved from it as well as from the conflagration produced by Phaëthon; they even added that the Hellenes were childish in attaching so much importance to that event, as there had been several other local catastrophes resembling it.
The Greek gods, too, punished humanity for various transgressions, leading to disasters like the flood in the story of Deucalion.
Another significant myth associated with Mount Parnassus is the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, who survived a great flood sent by Zeus to punish humanity.
According to the myth, after the floodwaters receded, Deucalion and Pyrrha landed on Mount Parnassus.
Evidence: The Greek myth of Deucalion’s flood describes a cataclysmic flood sent by Zeus to punish humanity.
The particular event here alluded to is the Oriental “Flood” of Noah, Deucalion, and others.
Flood: The deluge that destroyed Atlantis is paralleled by the Greek story of Deucalion's flood.
Syrian Legend: Deucalion Sisythes builds a vessel and survives the flood with animals seeking refuge.
Ogyges and Deucalion: Ogyges escapes a flood that covers the earth.
Deucalion, advised by Prometheus, survives with his wife in a chest and repopulates the earth.
Blavatsky reads him beside Noah, Xisuthrus, and Deucalion as deluge head-figures, and she ties continent loss to her Root-Race scheme.
Blavatsky lists Vaivasvata beside Noah, Xisuthrus, and Deucalion as deluge head-figures.